5th Dragoon Regiment - History

History

  • 1656-59: La Fronde
  • 1667-68: Spanish War of Devolution
  • Flanders Campaign: Senef 1674, Battle of Cassel (1677)
  • War of the League of Augsburg: Siege of Namur, Steenkerque 1692, Neerwinden 1693
  • War of the Spanish Succession: Spire 1703, Ramillies 1706, Lorch 1707, Malplaquet 1709
  • War of the Austrian Succession: Rocoux 1746, Lauffeld 1747
  • Seven Years' War: Hastenbeck 1757
  • French Army of the North: Valmy 1792, Neerwinden 1793 and Wattignies 1793
  • Ardennes and Sambre-et-Meuse Armies 1794-95
  • Army of Italy: Mondovì, Castiglione, Bassano 1796, Cremona 1799, Marengo 1800

As part of Napoleon's Grande Armée it fought at Wertingen, Auterlitz in 1805, Nasielsk in 1806, Eylau, and the Battle of Friedland in 1807.

  • Spain: Almonacid, 1809, Ocana 1809, Battle of Vitoria
  • War of the Sixth Coalition: Battle of Craonne, Battle of La Fère-Champenoise 1814

In 1815, during the Waterloo campaign of the Hundred Days, the regiment was at the Battle of Ligny and the Battle of Waterloo

  • Spain 1823
  • Belgium 1831
  • Army of the Rhine (France): Spicheren, Borny, Rezonville, Noiseville, Colombey 1870.

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